Grab-bag

On today’s episode, you’ll hear that AMLO’s coalition is a grab-bag of political parties and interest groups from across the spectrum. A grab-bag is a collection of unrelated things. It comes from a tradition at a party in which a bag is filled with individual items and each person at the party reaches in without looking to choose one thing as a gift. More commonly, it is used to suggest that there are many unrelated things in a collection. In this sense, AMLO’s coalition is a grab-bag of parties and interest groups: some are from the right, some from the left; trade unions coexist with businesses; members of established parties combine with members of fringe parties. In this sense, his coalition is a grab-bag.